Welcome to this very informal group of the wide-awake inwardly, also known as EMPATHS.
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I thought Highly Sensitive Person, but as I read more, I wonder. Perhaps I'm both or neither. I just know that I feel that I have virtually no energetic boundaries--I pick up others' emotions immediately, and it can be exhausting. I am just learning to take care of myself...

Alone with my thoughts and thoughts as you may know can ease you, or they can be deadly. But I am one to say readily how I feel without holding back anything. Today I felt - I can leave the earth and not come back. I feel I have done all that I can as a person here. No, I'm not...

I've lived my entire life confusing myself with overpowering emotions surging through and through. Empath is not a new word but I didn't know it was a defining statement.
How do you live fighting off all the emotions, may it be from television or from a walk in the park, that...

That feeling like you can't swim anymore. Everything hurts. The air in your lungs is becoming less. So what do you do? Relax, keep swimming, hope that you'll reach the shore. Or do you panic, flail your arms and legs, exert the last ounce of energy, and slowly sink. Looking up...

so what?I don't belong, anywhere, but everywhereI look observe all that is around meand feel more than you can imaginebecause if you didyou'd feel the pain around youtrying to get inside youand if you are weak, which I'm notyou are sucked in deep...deepin a vortex you may...

for 24 hours. I think it's interesting enough to note...
The house feels peaceful.
The air feels lighter.
The oppression has lifted.
I feel different.
There is no heavy negative energy following me around trying to suffocate me.
I slept better.
I feel better.
I woke up on...

for a very difficult childhood. So much information for my little brain to process, it was so overwhelming. I remember as young as four knowing how people felt. I could feel it, yet in the spirit of protecting me In was often lied to, or dismissed, which didn't make things...

.... because I can feel it....
you ask me why I am self-conscious....
.... because I can feel every stare, every look, every glance, every eye turned my way....
you ask me why I am a peace maker....
.... because I can feel every searing rush of anger, raw and unreasonable...

that i havent already said about being an empath? Iv been an Empath for many years now and quite possibly, my entire life. I learned about this entire subject threw trial and error over the years, and although im not the highest leveled empath out there, i used to be pretty...

my mother says it runs in the family. i didnt grow up with my mother for six years of my childhood so i know i didnt pick it up in as a way of mannorism. originally i was an empath with animals mostly. because i didnt have family members of my own. i could tell at age 6 or 7 that...

and nervous system function differently. Most of us have heard that we have a highly sensitive nervous system that allows us to pick up on things. What they are also discovering is that our neurons mirror other people's neurons. So in a way, we are literally in their head...

I belive that all human being, and to an extent, animals too, are more or less empathic. Feelings and emotions are something we all share.
Feelings and emotions are electrical in nature.
I belive that our feelings affect the electric field around our body, the way it vibrates...

for a few days now. So far it's scary accurate. I've been doing a few hours a day. I've noticed that when I do it that I "hear" the response as well as the movement of the pendulum. I think it's helping me tune into my clairaudience as well. I personally use it to talk to my...

person... You have to connect with yourself first.
Have empathy for yourself
Forgive yourself
Love yourself
It's amazing how many of us walk around unconnected... Searching for something to fill the void.
The only place you needed to search was inside yourself.
Then everything...

I love the unlovable. Trust the ill intentioned. I catch the lies but believe them anyway- because behind every lie there's some truth... Some desire, and that desire burns so deep in me that I can feel it in my veins, corrupting my blood and infecting my heart. To care this...

during a stressful situation?
This has happened to me a couple of times since I've become emotionally detached from the sociopath.
I have to communicate with him about the divorce and last night he was doing his typical circular conversation and guilt provoking crap. I became a...

...I asked the cashier how she was....it took her about 5 minutes to tell me all about it. She was a young woman, and a friend about her age had just passed away suddenly. As and empath, I was happy to "carry her things" for a few minutes.

Yes, I have looked around the web and I seem to be an empath and yes it seems to make me quite introverted around certain people, people who (I sense) wouldn't have a clue what I'm talking about if I were to try and explain my position in a crowded setting. The funny thing is, I...

who care too much. First experience post, btw!
I generally love people and feel that I would do anything to help someone if it's within my power. It took me a long time to realize why other people aren't that way and I often took it very personally and judged them as being...

the precipice of something huge. I can't really describe it but it feels like your almost able to taste your destiny. I've been waiting searching for about a year now and it's like I'm almost there. A year ago (approx) I found myself. I found it by absolutely letting go of...

I can relate to almost all of these, I always absorb other peoples emotions... the only thing I dont really agree with is #4 I love violence and anything that evokes emotion on tv or film because it almost feels like Catharsis purging of all the pent up emotions.
30 traits of...

your ability to bounce back.
Once the toxic energy is gone, it takes about 24 hours. A double bonus.. Surround yourself with positive people and you not only bounce back, but you bounce back higher.
That has to really suck for the negative noose that's trying to choke you to...

I came across this definition in my psychic ability group in yahoo defining an empath, I copied to share hoping it helps others understand "What is an Empath?"
EMPATHS
Marked by an acute sensitivity to the feeling of others, Empaths can
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necklace and a few in pocket as well. I always carry my pendulum in a pouch on me as well. I've noticed that come nightfall I typically want to ***** down and put my pjs on. So I empty my pockets and remove my jewelry as well. Typically I keep my necklace on till I get into bed...

because I feel like the weight of the world's emotions are crushing me. I always feel overly sensitive to situations because I know the true meaning behind people's words. I know when people say things with malicious intent.
I feel and absorb the emotional energy around me, and...

that I was empathic. It's been a part of my life for as long as I can remember! I've heard some study say that in a scientific sense, this "hyper emotional awareness" stems from having a passive aggressive, or just flat out aggressive, parent. The child has to tube in to the...

and you don't want to believe it. You think that they're crazy but then you realize you're just as crazy? Welcome to my sun bathed hole of darkness.
I am still trying to convince myself I'm normal. I don't want to be this. But I've already known for a long time I'm not like a...

i once saw tge phrase "your pain is my sorrow" i never forgot it. ive cried over breakups that where not my own. crowds are a nightmare deending on the oberal emotional noise it gives off. twice ive accidentally projected my emotional pain onto my boyfriend and it had him on his...

. and i know I am.. But i didnt pay much attention about that part of me. Until the other day.
I saw a pix of children in cages while the Isis is holding a fire.. im sure they didnt burn the children but I feel terribly sick in my gut.. Hopefully they will not.
I felt my body...

and psycho spiritual babble will not help anyone who is really suffering. Neither will books or therapy.
Human Love/intimacy in intimate relationship is what is needed for the intimacy starved soul. Isolation os profoundly unhealthy, damaging, and destructive. Period. Whether...

Empaths are often portrayed like cliches - all caring, giving and unselfish. Well, I'm an empath who struggles with the caring, the giving and am quite selfish. Every empathic encounter takes from you, which is generally fine because empaths seem to have swollen emotional...

that I'm an empath. I've tried to run and hide from it, locking it away like a skeleton ever since I learned what an empath was, and that I was one. I never believed it, closing my eyes and covering my ears, "It's not real, it's not real!" All the while, more and more signs and...

I often was told when I was a child. „Stop being so hypersensitive!“ So I tried. I tried to be... whatever they wanted me to be. I didn’t know what they expected of me, but I tried so hard. Be more this. Be less that. Act like this. Don’t act like that. I...

door
removing my boots
black and cool
laying on the floor wet
Realizing the scythe was
in my hand
my clothing black
draped and flowing
She sat in the corner
looking so tired
and I entered
to bring relief
Cleaning the room
in which I would wait
for the calling...

have and perceive....I just want support. I am hurting and haven't brought myself to make a difference about it...there are so many ways I could begin but I am holding myself back because of fear...I am so afraid of making the wrong move and missing something..Now I am afraid of...

Until I understood what it means to be an empath, I thought I was a hopeless mess. If you have learned about being a highly sensitive person, it is a similar kind of understanding in some ways.
Out of 20 people, 5 are highly sensitive. We notice and react to things that other...

I think I'm an empath partly based on needing it to survive my mother. I learned to feel the energy in the house the moment I walked in after school. If the air was thick and foggy (metaphorically) I knew to lay low, or to try to balance the negativity by acting positive. I had...

crap to brilliant while the toxic energy is away..
It makes me wonder...
Is toxic the same for everyone?
If a person has a energy draining vampiric like effect on you.. Would they have the same effect on another person in your place?
Or could they be sunshine and butterflies to...